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Drivers regularly use York St. to cut through campus, speeding through this crosswalk despite high pedestrian traffic and limited visibility caused by vehicles parked along both sides of the road. We need a stop sign installed here ASAP - we should NOT have to wait for someone to be hit by a car for this issue to be addressed.
18 Faalladas
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
I agree. Visibility is poor here, speeds are too high for such a dense pedestrian environment. Crosswalk bumpouts (which improve visibility) and measures to control speed are desperately needed before more student/staff/faculty members are seriously injured or killed. Parking spaces should be removed as a first step, which will expand sightlines into the crosswalk; the next step should be in-road signage of some sort, which creates a narrowing effect. Both of these measures can be put into place immediately, i.e., beginning tomorrow. Within a month or so, we should be able to implement a raised/textured/lit crosswalk and bumpouts. For example: https://www.amherst.edu/offices/facilities/capital_projects/project_archives/crosswalks_college
The community simply can not allow unsafe conditions to persist when lives are directly threatened. See: http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25009
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24841
I hope that immediate action is taken and encourage everyone to rally their colleagues and friends around this issue by sending letters and making calls to the city, state, university, police departments, elected officials and others.
Ben (Martida)
I am interested in these bump-outs at crosswalks.
Would you be willing to do a little research to establish cost?
This might be another item of interest to the Upper State Street Association.
Brian Tang (Martida)
Brian Tang (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Rather than putting in a stop sign (which would likely frustrate a fair number of drivers) this would be an ideal place to install a "YIELD HERE TO PEDS" sign combined with a "yield line."
See page 35 of the Manual of Universal Traffic Control Devices:
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/2003r1r2/ch3.pdf
Pat (Martida)
Resident (Martida)
Some kind of marking is still urgently needed here.
Visibility also should be increased by "daylighting" the intersection.
Brian Tang (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Hey Resident, this intersection has already been “daylit.” Parking is prohibited on the west side on either side of the crosswalk markings and there is a bus stop (and thus “no parking” signs) before the crosswalk on the east side. You should take a look at it.
If any action is taken, I recommend “yield here to peds” signs combined with a yield line, as illustrated on page 3B-27 of the federal Manual of Universal Traffic Control Devices (see photo).
E (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
While I adhere to the crosswalks and lights, I can see why others dont.
It would also help if pedestrians would stop and let traffic flow on green - and cross in a timely manner instead of acting as if they own the road and have all the time in the world. Thats another reason drivers dont slow - because they want to beat the rush of people crossing when they arent supposed to cross. I have seen it happen over and over again.
A common problem in New Haven is pedestrians, no matter which section of the street, cross when ever they freaking want to - instead of sharing the road. Its aggrevating.
Derek (Martida)
Resident (Martida)
The intersection needs to be "more" daylit, on both sides of the street.
Bumpouts would greatly help improve visibility, and pedestrian comfort and safety.
The crossing distance should be no more than ten feet, which would limit travel speeds to about 10-15 miles per hour. There is no need to have a wide road here that cars can speed down. That is just a recipe for more deaths.
I use this crosswalk every day (Martida)
Anonymous (Martida)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Any progress on this?
The intersection is still a dangerous one, although more rigorous enforcement of the intersection daylighting (sight lines) has helped.
David Backeberg (Martida)
The crosswalk needs to be raised so people going 35 at least slow down for the bump. Theoretically, this crosswalk is surrounded by no parking zones.
Problem is that New Haven doesn't enforce no parking zones. And in defense of the delivery trucks who park here, the delivery zones on York aren't enforced either, so they have to park in the closest place they can find.
How about we pave the no parking zones as sidewalks with a high curbstone to make the no parking zones self-enforcing?
It would be nice if Yale would encourage their own drivers to use a different street for deliveries; either Wall St. or Grove to do the Yale deliveries with Yale trucks.
It would also be nice if I never saw Yale and New Haven police parking in the no parking zones here.
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
City of New Haven (La Caddeeyey Rasmi ah)
La xidhay Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (La Caddeeyey Rasmi ah)